Day 3: Making New Friends

Once a camp begins there is absolutely no way stopping it, what is done will continue moving our lives and what happens will make a permanent mark on all of us. Children are the fuel that move the day to day life of a CISV Camp; Leaders, Junior Councilors and Staff work hard even though exhausted to improve and organize every day that passes by. As long as the camp moves along, our lives will be left standing still back at our own countries and cities. 

Sudden friendship is not an uncommon thing to see at a CISV Camp, specially in the Village Programme where the age group lets them decide that their new friends are the best friends of all. As days pass they unite and make an everlasting bond with people from other parts of the world, a huge network of souls united by one same principle and one same love. CISV Friends are forever, and forever is not a finite thing to come by. 

Leaders become their role models and someone to look up to, at the same time Junior Councilors become their keepers and someone to come to. It's incredible to look at time passing by and realizing that what you though was a lifetime now is just way to short and will pass by with no hesitation. children that homesickness is no longer a possibility, it just becomes a burden and a reason to not spend time with their new found friends.

As time moves on, we all realize we are not individual beings at a same location in the world, we are all parts of a same mechanism that needs to function like clockwork to get somewhere. We begin learning how everyone likes their food, how we speak differently, and most importantly, how to communicate without having to use words. Three days have gone by, but it seems that it;s just tomorrow when we'll have to miss everyone, and then the roles will change. 

I know for certain, when writing this blog, that all pieces are moving in unison, our T-Rex Village is on its way to greatness, all components can start to roll like if we knew each other from a lifetime ago. As we learn from one another, we learn from ourselves, things children speak seem so mature and so true, we realize we're all part of one family, one heart. 

 Although this seems like a short while, three days seem like an eternity of knowing someone when you're at a Village. Friendship endures, strives and will blossom while we continue to mature, children will in a future reunite with their CISV Friends at a new programme and although some years have passed they'll take off where they left. I now know for certain that the last day will be one of the hardest for me, because although I don't want it to come, and I'm not ashamed to say it, I'll be completely Campsick.